Lewis was the first person to undertake a long-distance swim in every ocean of the world. He pioneered the first swim across the North Pole, the first swim along the length of the English Channel, the world’s highest swim and even a swim under the Antarctic ice sheet.

Lewis’s kilometre swim across Lake Pumori, at 5,200m on Mt Everest was the world’s highest swim and would draw attention to the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, a water lifeline for over 2 billion people.

Lewis William Gordon Pugh, OIG, (born 5 December 1969) is a British- South African endurance swimmer and ocean advocate. Dubbed the "Sir Edmund Hillary of swimming", he is the first person to complete a long-distance swim in every ocean of the world, and he frequently swims in vulnerable ecosystems to draw attention to their plight. [1]

2023年7月19日 · On August 13 2023, Lewis Pugh began his 315-mile (507-km) swim down the Hudson River, from its source to its end at New York City. He finished the swim, ‘exhausted but rejuvenated’, on Wednesday 13 September, at Battery Park. Lewis swam to highlight the critical role rivers play in a habitable planet.

As an endurance swimmer, Lewis is unparalleled. The swim that started it all was from Robben Island to Cape Town in 1987. A series of record-breaking swims soon followed, culminating in his first polar swim, around the North Cape. Then came the swim along the length of the River Thames, another first.

2014年11月6日 · Lewis Pugh once swam one kilometer at the North Pole in water so cold that the cells in his fingers burst. Three years later, he nearly drowned swimming in the thin air of Lake Pumori, which sits...

Lewis Pugh completed a 507km swim down the United States’ Hudson River in September 2023, a month-long endurance test designed to shine a spotlight on the world’s rivers and the benefits of cleaning up long-neglected waterways.

Lewis Pugh, the epic cold-water swimmer and climate-change activist, has announced his next swim: a kilometer-long lap across a glacial lake at the top of Everest, in a pond of meltwater 17,000 feet up. He told me the swim will highlight climate-change issues in two massive countries bordering Everest, China and India. With their large […]

Ocean Advocate | Pioneer Swimmer | Inspirational Speaker Lewis is best known for undertaking the first swim across the North Pole in 2007 to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice and for ...

After he swam the North Pole, Lewis Pugh vowed never to take another cold-water dip. Then he heard of Lake Imja in the Himalayas, created by recent glacial melting, and Lake Pumori, a body of water at an altitude of 5300 m on Everest -- and so began a journey that would teach him a radical new way to approach swimming and think about climate ...